Ok this is a place for us office workers to exchange tips.

I work here 7am - 5pm 5 days a week and i travel about 11 weeks of the year from Oct to April on and off.

Right now in our lunch room there are Haloween Cookies and im avoiding it like crazy!

I can share some of my office eating habits and a few tips.

Ok here is the first. I keep a 12LB dumbbell in my cubie and when im talking on my hands free cordless phone i just curl away. I wonder what the guy on the other end of the phone would think!

Stress at work. I do fine when I'm home in sticking to the foods, etc I'm supposed to have. But at work, it is so hard as to be almost impossible. I have dried fruit at my desk, and it does help, as does plenty of water. I like the tip about the hand weights, I have some at home I can bring. My biggest problem seems to be because I cannot take a water bottle into some work areas. If I eat any thing, it must be very sneaky (I'm sitting behind my boss, and if she heard a"crinkle" or any indications of food being scarfed down, she'd have a duck!) So then the problem gets worse because when I get back to my office, I want to pig out(and sometimes do!). Any suggestions on what I can do relieve stress, other than quitting my job? I was banded on Oct 3, 2007 and will get my first fill Nov 19. I am looking forward to that since I currently feel no presssure or full feeling when I eat or drink. I have lost 14 lbs but that was mostly in the 1st two weeks. Thanks :)Laura

Laura,

As far as stress relief. I foind swimming before work does wonders! Then i go in the hot tub, mmmm mmmmmmmmm

O and here is this mornings lovely office kitchen.

Mandatory lunch? I thought the days of serfs were over. I have attended many a meeting that was mandatory, but I've never been told what I had to eat and who I had to eat it with! Guess, even with the stress, my job is not as difficult as I think it is.:)Laura

Anyone else dealing with everyone else's "leftover" Halloween candy?

Ack!

I have been trying to be good, even though my surgery is in January. Well forget that today!:faint:

I tore a ligament in my foot, crossing the f'ing street, I walked a little faster because the light was changing. Mind you, I walk lots all of the time now.

Anyway, got this soft cast on my foot, with a boot, and can barely walk now. So, then proceeded to eat the lunch I brought to work, a bag of pretzels my co-worker gave me, the granola bars in my desk, and the left over Halloween candy in the kitchen area when I went to get coffee.

Got home, and parked on the couch and finished the ice cream that has been sitting in the freezer for a month.

I am not even sorry, but pissed off at myself. I never thought I was a stress eater either and I can't remember eating this much stuff at work. So, does this type of a crash happen to anyone with the band in? My sister thinks it might be because I took a few different drugs today.

I have to say my co-workers in my "new" office are much nicer about food. All the food is in the supervisors office. 4 doors down from mine I dont even have to go there. And everyone here is real polite about fragrant food.

sweet deal Cerrin

Ill be updating again here soon.

Yeah I dont have to smell pancakes every morning ever again.

Yippiee! *happy dance*

Wow, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one struggling at work. But sad that we're all stuck dealing with it!

Between the stress and the non-stop Snacks and "luncheons" I can hardly stand going to work because that's where I lose my will power. For example, yesterday was a Thanksgiving luncheon...two conference tables filled with food and Desserts. I look like a butt if I don't participate but then I try to control myself and still end up eating more calories at lunch than I should in the entire day. It is so frustrating.

Then, if I hear one more skinny person at work complaining that "they're sooooo fat" I am going to flip out.

Sorry...but this thread is EXACTLY what I need right now to release some venting!

Yeah this morning was a donut breakfast. To say thank you for doing a big account.

HELLO donuts?!

Thankfully the people I work with are polite enough to keep the actual donuts out of my office.